ZORRO'S LEGACY
10/27/2026
a simple idea..
falls prey to a fevered dream...
manifests into an avatar,
it is a state of perpetual desire...
to be,
to exist!
to be free of shackles
from another man's manifest.
we stare...
through the bars of a jail cell crushing our dreams...
our soul
It is a cell of no tangibles
We are slaves to words
to the demands of the keepers
Does it matter this is our home?
some and most of us born...
nor that mine have been here as long
or longer?
We did not create the pale,
nor did those relegated to patches of land...
mockingly called reservations, where captivity learned to call itself home
Neither the brown brothers
nor the red brothers
made the borders
but we are equal in our desire to be...
to be human beings.
It is an idea..
once the backbone of this nation..
Zorro's Legacy..
To be,
To exist,
To matter!
Pale: an enclosed jurisdiction or boundary marked by stakes; the origin of the phrase "beyond the pale."
About the Creator
Victor Mendez
Born in 1958.There's a lot of road beneath these feet.Worn out pairs upon pairs of shoes.Been a ranch kid,a city kid,a Marine,a dad, a grandfather now,an avid reader and just recently began writing poetry in 2015 just to vent.
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